The concession is in a letter from the Home Office to JCWI referred to in R v Secretary of State for the Home Department, ex p Patel [1993] Imm AR 257, QBD and 392, CA.

No chance. They will simply tell him to recover in his home country.

I had an interesting conversation today with a leading immigration lawyer. I asked him to explain the real reason behind the recent change. According to him the real reason has nothing to do with the official reason - adopting European norms. The UK has persistently chosen to opt out of the European...

Anyway it was announced today that both Bulgaria & Romania would become EU member on the 1/1/2007.


http://www.workpermit.com/news/2006_04_ ... embers.htm

Kavik wrote:If you are already in the country: and got WP approved on one date, later you got stamped. In this case as per I understand it is the date you got approval letter.

What counts is the day when your Leave to Remain changed to WP employment.

BOC having 7 years continuous residence in the UK qualify for ILR outside the rules.

1. No effect on WP application but might affect FLR(IED) application as you have to show sufficient funds so as not to recourse to public funds.

2. You have 28 days to find new employment starting on the date you leave your current employer.

The Immigration Service has an inherent incentive to make removals and improve the statistics.

You can have as much recourse to public funds as you wish after you get the ILR. Take every penny your hands can grab - after all you've been working very hard for it. I am, for example, paying something like £30,000 tax per annum to help finance some trashy single mums get free council housing. I w...

timefactor wrote:ILR Team at HO would be facing redundancy now , as they don't have job for another year.

They will simply be seconded to deal with FLR(IED) extension applications instead of SET(O) forms. No one is going to be made redundant there.

After the changed the rules to show that legal migrants are not welcome here. The have the cheek to announce: http://www.workpermit.com/news/2006_03_30/uk/uk_plans_skilled_foreign_scientists.htm The UK Trade Secretary, Patricia Hewitt warned that Britain needs to attract more foreign talent to meet ...

Well, I guess we are in for some nice legal battle.

Big B... S...

ind1,

There is no need for an offer letter for tier 1.

I really don't expect the proposed criteria to be the final ones.

You are having a very premature rejoice. You can rest assured that the criteria will be tested against a big sample of existing migrant profiles in HO database to ensure that hordes of migrants will not land here.

I also think that the change to the ILR qualifying period was mainly influenced by the HO desire to collect more fees from immigrants. It was also influenced by the need to ensure an overall natural reduction in the number of migrants qualifying for settlement. The reason the HO gave for the change ...

I would not be surprised. The HO has stated in the last Command Paper that it would review the fees structure later this year. 'Review' usually means an 'upward only' review.

"every dog has its day" or in arabic (which the slave masters from Dubai understand) "Kul kalb biji yomo" and these Dubai exploiters will surely have theirs.

It's a completely different story. The migrants who work in Dubai mainly do so in unskilled / menial jobs. They are told in the first place that under no circumstances will they get a permanent status in that country.

These people will not even be able to get a visitor's Entry Clearance to the UK.

It'll still be ILR + one year = citizenship. However the overall period to gain citizenship will be 6 (5 for ILR) + 1.

I can assure you that if Ronaldinho wanted to play for England in the World Cup he'd be naturalised in two seconds.

Just want to remind you that there has never been a consultation bu the HO about raising the qualifying period from 4 years to 5 years. If you read all the consultation documents you'll clearly notice that. Moreover, the HO failed to consult businesses about the increase it simply stated n the expla...

I think the stickies should automatically purge after two months inactivity.

I completely agree esp. when some of the stickies are obsolete.